The Riverview Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Gravesend, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.316 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Riverview Academy is a primary school in Gravesend, Kent for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 7 December 2021. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
The Riverview Academy catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 2.316 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 2.316 miles, the 210th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle figure was 2.24 miles.
- Reception 2026 drew 84 first-choice applications for 91 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 7 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Of its pupils, 24.5% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 35.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Kent schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Cimba Wood, Gravesend, DA12 4SD
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 784 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 7 December 2021
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive in this lively and vibrant infant school.”
- “Leaders make sure that pupils are at the heart of everything they do so that pupils achieve well and enjoy their time in school.”
- “Pupils talk enthusiastically about their learning.”
To improve
- “Pupils sometimes struggle to recall important knowledge over time.”
- “This is because teachers do not always give pupils the essential vocabulary needed to knowledgeably talk about their learning.”
- “In addition, teachers do not always link new learning with what pupils have learned before.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 February 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 84 first-preference applications, 91 offers in total, 84 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Kent.
- Tymberwood Academy 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Singlewell Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- King's Farm Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Westcourt Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Whitehill Primary School 0.9 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- St John's Catholic Primary School, Gravesend 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Shears Green Infant School 1.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published